Art NOW series featuring Erika DeFreitas
back to process, a practice
February 5 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
Erika DeFreitas’s interdisciplinary practice includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.
Erika DeFreita's exhibition, it’s because of the shimmer, the verge, and the yet., is on view in the Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess Gallery from January 18 - March 29, 2025. Organized and circulated by the Doris McCarthy Gallery. Thank you the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery for their collaboration in making this artist talk possible.
Image: Erika DeFreitas, from the series The Black Madonnas of Great Echoes, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Christie Contemporary.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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